Cannot get first authorization code

joaocasarin — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 03:55:36 GMT

Well, basically I am trying to start the authorization flow to get an accessToken to retrieve data from the authorized user.

The problem is that I am constantly getting `response_type must be code or token` with the code 400 - bad request.

Obviously I am using the correct client_id and client_secret in the url.

This is happening when I create the URL using this code:

```ts

import env from '@configs/env';

import logger from '@configs/logger';

import { Response } from 'express';

const {

SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID,

SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET,

SPOTIFY_AUTHORIZE_URL,

REDIRECT_URI

} = env;

const getExchangeCode = (res: Response): void => {

const query = new URLSearchParams({

respose_type: 'code',

client_id: SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID,

client_secret: SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET,

scope: 'user-read-recently-played user-top-read playlist-modify-public',

redirect_uri: REDIRECT_URI

});

const url = new URL(SPOTIFY_AUTHORIZE_URL);

url.search = query.toString();

logger.info(url.toString());

res.redirect(url.toString());

};

export default getExchangeCode;

```

I doesn't work in both cases:

1. get redirected from my javascript app

2. access that same url manually

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